I have a whetstone from Charnley Forest that I got from Jeff Gorman
(stone you picked up from the forest, Jeff). It has a fine grain and
puts a good edge on knives. Since it was rough and irregular, I used a
tile saw to split it in half.

Thank you to a great Galoot that I still miss, 

Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA

	-----------------------------------------From: "John Ruth" 
To: "porch"
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday June 29 2022 12:06:25PM
Subject: [oldtools] Video of Mining and Fabricating Coticule
Whetstones circa 1971

 GG's

 I found this interesting even though I don't speak a word of this
dialect:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEOEggYgskU
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 I recommend watching this even without any understanding of the
narration or captions. Perhaps some more linguistic Galoot can inform
us of the finer points.

 That mine is downright medieval !!! The US Mine Safety Administration
would have apoplexy after one glance! You can only wonder how dark it
is down there when there is no video crew in there with their electric
lights! No Personal Protective Equipment whatsoever.

 The two-man push-pull saw is interesting. Note the worker setting the
teeth with a hammer, freehand! What sort of a saw plate would this be?
How thick?

 Although Roy Underhill wrote of trying to "harvest" whetstones in the
wild, have any Porch dwellers actually found one?

 John Ruth
 Recalling that somebody has/had an oddly shaped stone embedded in a
block of wood.

 



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